Austria, 54
Austria-Hungary, 65, 66
Ayub Khan, 103–104
Azerbaijan, 73
Baader-Meinhof, 40
Bab el Mandeb Straits, 196
Babrak Karmal, 11
Baghdad Pact: see Central Treaty Organization
Bahrain, 24, 75
Balance of power, 1, 2, 3–4, 19–20, 70, 141, 201
Baluchistan, 83
Barre: see Siad Barre
Bartlett, Dewey F., 179
Bay of Pigs invasion, 100, 255–56
Begin, Menachem, 252
Belgium, 271
Bering, Vitus, 52
Bering Straits, 52
Berlin, Germany, 4, 54, 268, 288
blockade of, 4, 156
Berlin Wall, 22, 129
Bevan, Aneurin, 216
Beveridge, Albert, 138
Bevin, Ernest, 212
Biafra, 31
Bill of Rights, 43, 50
Black Sea, 54
Board of Economic Welfare, U.S., 206
“Boat people,” of Vietnam, 14, 21, 111, 121
Bohlen, Charles E., 47, 68, 294
Bolshoi Theater, 49
Botha, Pieter Willem, 32
Bowles, Chester, 108
Boxer Rebellion, 131
Brandt, Willy, 178
Brazil, 34, 35, 271
Brezhnev, Leonid I., 23, 28, 60, 112, 135, 138, 204, 234, 235, 256, 265, 285, 291, 295
RN on, 48–49, 245, 292, 295
Brosio, Manlio, 44
Brown, Harold, 157, 159
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 62–63
Buckley, William F., Jr., 238
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 202
Bulganin, Nikolai, 254
Bulgaria, 19
Bullitt, William, 47
Burger, Warren, 259
Burma, 75
Burns, James MacGregor, 248
Burundi, 31
Calente, Rafael, 206
Calley, William, 115
Cambodia, 3, 12, 34, 45, 98, 101, 106, 107, 111, 115, 120, 121, 146, 203, 213, 239, 241, 245, 277
Khmer Rouge rebellion, 111
North Vietnamese invasion of, 108–11
U.S. bombing in, 108–11
Canada, 74, 271
Cape of Good Hope, 30
Capitalism: see Communism
Carter, Jimmy, 169, 172, 124, 252, 264
Castro, Fidel, 19, 35, 36, 239
Catherine II (“the Great”), 54, 60, 281
Catledge, Turner, 47
CENTO: see Central Treaty Organization
Central America, 19, 283
Soviet Union and, 83
strategic location of, 35
Central Africa, 23, 28, 29–30
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 11, 40, 156, 157, 259, 261, 263–64, 298
and Afghanistan, 11
and Bay of Pigs invasion, 100
and Vietnam War, 100
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), 78
Ceylon, 75
Chad, 31
Chardin, Teilhard de, 127
Chekhov, Anton, 59
Chiang Kai-shek, 132, 138
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 132
Chile, 35, 277, 301
China: see Imperial China; People’s Republic of China; Republic of China
Chomsky, Noam, 241
Chou En-lai: see Zhou Enlai
Churchill, Winston, 16, 47, 62, 66, 99, 133, 150, 237, 270, 279, 287, 288, 307–308
Churchill, Winston II, 231
CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency
Clark, Ramsey, 115
Clausewitz, Karl von, 20
Clemenceau, Georges, 73
Cline, Ray, 40
Clubb, O. Edmund, 133
Colby, William, 123–24
Colombia, 34, 35
Commentary, 242
Communism
vs. capitalism, 14, 15, 226–27
as system of government, 14, 46–47, 202, 213, 239
and “World War III,” 21
Communist China: see People’s Republic of China
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 63
Congo, 31, 301; see also Zaire
Congress: see U.S. Congress
Connally, John, 219
Conquest, Robert, 60
Constantinople, 54
Constitution: see U.S. Constitution
Containment, 96, 281–84, 286, 297
Costa Rica, 34
Crawford, Kenneth, 115
Crozier, Brian, 17, 119
Cuba, 3, 12, 19, 33, 37, 44, 88, 100, 272, 282
and Africa, 25–29 passim, 31, 36, 82, 87, 198, 239
and Latin America, 34–36
Soviet Union and, 3, 88, 214, 303
U.S.-Soviet agreement on, 251
See also Bay of Pigs; Cuban missile crisis
Cuban missile crisis, 12, 44, 156, 166, 293
Curzon, George N., 73
Custine, Marquis de, 62, 310
Czechoslovakia, 19
1968 revolt, 210, 282, 299
Daoud, Mohammed, 10
Defense Department: see U.S. Department of Defense
de Gaulle, Charles, 66, 133, 257, 270, 313
Demirel, Suleyman, 186
Democratic socialism, 216
Deng Xiaoping, 17, 126, 127, 134, 144, 145, 147
Détente, 15, 48–49, 208, 266–67, 280–81, 284–90, 297
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 99–100, 102, 103–104, 123–24, 239
Dien Bien Phu, battle of (1954), 99
Diplomacy (Nicolson), 253, 264–65
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 235, 251, 292
Dominican Republic, 302
Dos Passos, John, 240
Dostoevsky, Fëdor, 59
Draft: see Military draft
Draper, Theodore, 285
Dreiser, Theodore, 240
Dresden, bombing of, 104
Dulles, John Foster, 47, 137, 234, 254, 265, 294
East Africa, 31
East Asia, 97–98, 191
Eastern Europe, 12, 19, 284
Soviet domination of, 19, 66, 209, 210, 303
U.S. trade with, 209–10, 211
East Germany, 19, 25, 37, 203, 210, 282
Africa and, 25, 29, 87
economy, 203
See also Berlin; Germany
Economist, 165, 264
Ecuador, 34, 35
Egypt, 78, 84, 86, 213, 301; see also Egyptian-Israeli accord
Egyptian-Israeli accord (1979), 213, 252, 264
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 13, 79, 99, 109, 186, 234, 254, 255, 265
and Vietnam, 99, 100, 105
Eisenhower Doctrine, 284
El Salvador, 34, 35, 206
Energy: see Oil; U.S.; U.S. Department of Energy
Engels, Friedrich, 63
England: see Great Britain
Eritrea: see Ethiopia Estonia, 19
Ethiopia, 3, 25–27, 28, 34, 35, 82, 83, 87, 120, 121, 198, 208, 213
Eritrea province, 24, 26, 87
1974 military coup in, 26
Ogaden province, 26, 87
and “World War III,” 25–27
Evans, Rowland, 35
Exxon Corporation, 79; see also Standard Oil Trust
Fascism, 236, 239
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 264
Finland, 54
“Finlandization,” 11, 12
First World War: see World War I
Fitzsimmons, Frank, 245
Flanagan, Dennis, 150
FNLA: see National Front for the Liberation of Angola
Foch, Ferdinand, 73
Fonda, Jane, 115
Ford, Gerald R., 117, 118, 119, 171, 173
Foreign Affairs, 137, 281
Formosa: see Republic of China
Forrestal, James V., 74
France, 53, 66, 79, 197, 246, 271, 275, 313
Indochina and, 98–99
in NATO, 186
and Suez crisis, 79
Franco, Francisco, 186, 277
French Revolution, 58
Freedom of Information Act, 264
Friedman, Milton J., 226
Galloway, Joseph, 294–95
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 133, 232
“Gang of Four,” 144, 145
Geneva Conference
of 1954, 137.
of 1962, 101
Genghis Khan, 50
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 22
Germany, 22, 53, 65, 66, 130, 178, 204, 212; see also Berlin; East Germany; West Germany
Ghana, 301
Gibraltar, 181, 276
Gide, André, 240
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 270
Gorshkov, Sergei, 194, 196
Goya, Francisco de, 60
Great Britain, 9, 16, 66, 67, 68, 72, 75, 83, 90, 98, 99, 100, 197, 249, 271
and Afghanistan, 9
economy, 216
and Imperial China, 128–31, 132
and Imperial Russia, 65
Persian Gulf and, 83
in Suez crisis, 79
Great Wall of China, 129
Greece, 47, 66, 73, 82, 214, 283, 301
Grenada, 35
Gromyko, Andrei, 235, 292, 295
Gruenther, Alfred, 255
Guatemala, 35
Guerrilla warfare: see “Revolutionary war”
Guinea, 31
Hafizullah Amin, 11
Haig, Alexander M., 179
Haiphong Harbor: see Vietnam War
Hamilton, Edith, 232
Hanoi: see North Vietnam
Hart, B. H. Liddell, 43, 96, 97, 252, 279, 287
Harvard University, 238, 241
Hassan II, of Morocco, 276
Hawaiian Islands, 52
Health, Education and Welfare: see U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hearst, William Randolph, 47
Heath, Edward, 270
Herodotus, 232
Herzog, Chaim, 92
Hiroshima, bombing of, 16, 104
Hiss, Alger, 47
Hitler, Adolf, 307, 308
Ho Chi Minh, 39, 98, 99, 102, 240
Ho Chi Minh City, 118
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 101
Hoffer, Eric, 241
Holborn, Hajo, 68
Holloway, James L., 194
Honduras, 35
Hoover, Herbert, 138
Hormuz: see Straits of Hormuz
Horn of Africa, 25, 26, 27, 86, 87, 94
Hua Guofeng, 127, 128, 135–36, 141, 145
Hué: see Vietnam War
Hull, Cordell, 69
Hungary, 19, 22, 209, 282
Hungarian revolution (1956), 22, 79, 210, 282, 299
Hussein I, 86, 276
Huxley, Julian, 240
Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics (Brzezinski), 62–63
Idi Amin, 32, 241
Iklé, Fred C., 156
Imperial China, 12, 19, 21, 52, 65, 126–29, 138–39, 240
Boxer Rebellion, 131
Great Britain and, 128–29
and Imperial Russia, 56–57, 130
Opium Wars, 130
See also People’s Republic of China; Republic of China
Imperial Russia, 49–50, 52–56, 63, 65, 203
and Imperial China, 56–57, 130
liberalization of, 59–60
Westernization of, 53, 58–59
See also Muscovite Russia; Russia, pre-Muscovite; Russian Revolution; Soviet Union
India, 52, 65, 75, 92, 99, 124, 213, 228, 259
People’s Republic of China and, 132, 135, 140
Indian Ocean, 75, 82, 84, 90, 94, 191, 195
Indochina, 19, 96, 98, 111, 121, 124
France and, 98
See also Vietnam War
Indonesia, 92, 98, 302
Inflation: see United States Ionesco, Eugene, 5–6
Iran, 3, 9, 34, 38, 73, 82–88 passim, 90, 98, 186, 272–77
1953 insurrection in, 78
1979 revolution, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 91, 274, 276
oil of, 78, 80
takeover of U.S. Embassy in, 10, 38, 215
Iraq, 78, 90, 83–84, 85–86, 87, 92, 186, 276
Iron Curtain, 18, 19, 47
“Iron Curtain” speech (Churchill), 307–308
Islam, 19, 52, 91–92, 305–306
Shiite Moslems, 84, 90, 91
Sunni Moslems, 84, 90, 91
“Islamic revolution,” 92
Isolationism, 66, 68, 69
Israel, 78–79, 83, 84, 86, 92–94, 187
RN and, 93
Six-Day War, 78–79
Suez crisis, 78–79
U.S. and, 92–93
Yom Kippur War, 12, 80, 84, 93
See also Arab-Israeli conflict; Egyptian-Israeli accord
Italy, 19, 205, 212, 301
communism in, 19
economy, 205
Ivan III (“the Great”), 51, 52
Ivan IV (“the Terrible”), 52, 53, 55, 60, 63
Izvestia, 11
Jackson, Henry M., 37, 153
Jamaica, 35
Jane’s Fighting Ships (1979–80 ed.), 194–95
Japan, 13, 58, 65, 66, 74, 81, 89, 91, 98, 128, 144, 176–78, 212, 283, 303
and Imperial China, 130
military capability of, 191–93
oil imports of, 23, 81, 94, 187, 188
People’s Republic of China and, 132, 140, 143–44
Soviet Union and, 13, 14, 176, 178, 189–93
and “World War III,” 23, 280
Jews, Soviet, 22
Jhiang Qing, 144
Joffre, Joseph, 73
John Paul II, 311
Johnson, Lyndon B., 104, 167, 284, 292
Johnson, Paul, 230
Johnson, Samuel, 231
Jordan, 86
Kahn, Herman, 150, 227
Kampuchea, 44; see also Cambodia
Karakhan Declaration (1919), 57, 58
Karmal: see Babrak Karmal
Katanga rebellion, 31
Kennan, George F., 281–82
Kennedy, John F., 44, 100, 101, 103, 104, 112, 156, 166, 255–56
Kenya, 75
Kerensky, Alexander, 42, 301
Keynes, John Maynard, 217
KGB: see Soviet Union
Khan: see Ayub Khan
Khmer Rouge, 111, 121, 203
Khomeini: see Ruhollah Khomeini
Khruschev, Nikita, 44, 47, 48, 49, 60, 135, 152, 156, 166, 207, 234, 255–56, 270, 293, 294, 311
RN on, 48, 49, 292
Kipling, Rudyard, 9, 65
Kissinger, Henry, 83, 111, 160, 189, 251, 252, 259, 267
Kliuchevsky, Vasily, 53
Kohler, Foy, 234
Kopelev, Lev, 235
Korea: see Korean War; North Korea; South Korea
Korean War, 19, 66, 98, 101, 104, 112, 156, 177, 192, 199, 281, 283, 304
People’s Republic of China in, 132, 135
Kosygin, Alexei, 49, 135–36, 206, 292, 295
Kraemer, Fritz, 199–200
Kritol, Irving, 45
Kurdish People’s Republic, 73
Kuwait, 75, 79, 80, 85, 87, 95
Kuznetsov, Vasili, 156
Ky, Nguyen Cao, 104, 106
Laird, Melvin, 107
Laos, 3, 12, 34, 98, 100–101, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 120
Laqueur, Walter, 286
Latin America, 4, 19, 67, 68, 122, 277
economies of, 34–35, 36
natural resources of, 33
U.S. policy toward, 36–37
and “World War III,” 23
Latvia, 19
Lebanon, 156
Lee Kwan Yew, 190, 271
Legum, Colin, 198
Lend-Lease, 204
Lenin, V.I., 4, 14, 42, 43, 58, 59–60, 63, 64, 148, 231, 233, 301
Lesser Antilles, 33
Liberia, 27
Libya, 37, 38, 74, 80
Linco
ln, Abraham, 314
“Linkage,” 267–69
Lippmann, Walter, 7, 47
Lithuania, 19, 55
Lithuanians, 22
Liu Shaogi, 134
Lloyd George, David, 207
Lloyd’s of London, 83
Lon Nol, 111
Los Angeles Times, 103
Ludlow Amendment (1938), 68–69
Lumumba:, see Patrice Lumumba Friendship University
Luttwak, Edward, 24, 25, 88
MacArthur, Douglas, 1, 16, 128, 138, 248, 279, 280, 308
McCloy, John, 156
McCormack, Richard T., 205, 229
McGovern, George, 96, 112, 113
Macmillan, Harold, 47, 178, 196, 270, 293, 307
McNamara, Robert S., 152, 156, 158, 261
Magna Carta, 50, 51
Maier, Francis X., 28
Malacca: see Straits of Malacca
Malawi, 24
Malaya, 75, 98, 100, 301
Mali, 24
Malraux, André, 133, 233
Manchester Guardian, 240
Manchuria, 57, 58
Mao Zedong, 39, 99, 127, 132–34, 138, 139, 141–45, 152, 211, 240
on Chiang Kai-shek, 132
Marshall, George C, 202; see also Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan, 47, 66, 74, 212, 237
Martin, Graham, 117
Marx, Karl, 51, 54, 63, 311
Marxism, 60, 62, 63–64; see also Communism; Marx, Karl
Matsu, 255
Mauritania, 92
Meany, George, 245
Mecca: see Saudi Arabia
Mengistu Meriam, Haile, 27
Mexico, 34–35, 36, 190
Meyer, Cord, 84
MFN: see Most favored nation status
Middle East, 4, 12, 13, 31, 33, 66, 72, 74, 79, 156, 195, 207, 213, 268, 284, 308
oil of, 79, 89, 94, 188, 206
and “World War III,” 23
Military draft, U.S., 201
Mineral resoures, of Africa, 23, 28, 29–30
“Mr. X”: see Kennan, George F.
Molotov, V. M., 61, 71, 89
Mongolia, 58
Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, 58
Monroe Docrine, 34, 36, 237, 283
Moro, Aldo, 40
Moslems: see Islam
Moss, Robert, 39
Mossadegh, Mohammed, 78, 272
Most favored nation status (MFN), 209, 211
Moynihan, Daniel P., 264
Mozambique, 3, 12, 28, 29, 30, 34, 241
MPLA: see Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 240, 314
Muscovite Russia, 11, 51, 52, 54
Mussolini, Benito, 236
“Mutual assured destruction” (MAD), 161–62, 163, 167
My Lai, 40, 115
Namibia, 29
Napoleon Bonaparte, 53, 58, 60, 126, 307, 310
Napoleonic wars, 53, 54, 58, 60
Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will), 59
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 78, 79
National Catholic Register, 28
National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), 28
Nationalist China: see Republic of China
National Research Council, 29
National Security Council, 13
National Union of Angola (UNITA), 28
NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization